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The
Holy Synod In several of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches and Eastern Catholic Churches, the patriarch or head bishop is elected by a group of bishops called the Holy Synod. For instance, the Holy Synod is a ruling body of the Georgian Orthodox C ...
of the Russian Orthodox Church ( rus, Священный синод Русской православной церкви, Svyashchennyy sinod Russkoy pravoslavnoy tserkvi) serves by Church statute as the supreme administrative governing body of the
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in the periods between Bishops' Councils.Устав РПЦ 2000 года
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Members

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Kirill Kirill is a male given name, deriving from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kyrillos) which in turn derives from Greek κύριος (kyrios) "lord". There are many variant forms of the name: Cyril, Cyrill, Kyrill, Kiryl, Kirillos, Kyryl, Kiril, Ky ...
– Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, chairman


Permanent members

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Paul (Ponomaryov) Metropolitan Paul (russian: Митрополит Павел, be, Мітрапаліт Павел, secular name Georgiy Vasilevich Ponomaryov, russian: Георгий Васильевич Пономарёв; born 19 February 1951 in Karaganda) was ...
– Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna * Barsanophius (Sudakov) – Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga * – Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus *
Vladimir (Cantarean) Vladimir (Cantarean), born Nicolae Cantarean on August 18, 1952, is a bishop of the Moldovan Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. He serves as Metropolitan of Chişinău and All Moldova and thus as first hierarch of the Church of Mo ...
– Metropolitan of Chișinău and All Moldova *
Alexander (Mogilyov) Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants li ...
– Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan *
Vincent (Morar) Vincent (Vinkenty, Vichentie, russian: Викентий; born Viktor Aleksandrovich Morar or Morari or Moraru, on December 4, 1953), is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He serves as Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan and he is a pe ...
– Metropolitan of Central Asia ; ex officio *
Anthony (Sevryuk) Metropolitan Anthony (russian: Митрополит Антоний, secular name Anton Yuryevich Sevryuk, russian: Антон Юрьевич Севрюк; born 12 October 1984), is the primate of the Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe of the ...
– Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, chairman of the
Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate The Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (DECR) (; until August 2000: Department for External Church Relations, russian: Отдел внешних церковных сношений, links=no) is one of the synodal ...


Former members

; by the cathedra *
Onuphrius (Berezovsky) Metropolitan Onufriy (Onuphrius, secular name Orest Volodymyrovych Berezovsky; uk, Орест Володимирович Березовський; russian: Орест Владимирович Березовский; born 5 November 1944) is the ...
– Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine (formerly; de facto)


See also

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Most Holy Synod The Most Holy Governing Synod (russian: Святѣйшій Правительствующій Сѵнодъ, Святейший Правительствующий Синод) was the highest governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church betwee ...


References

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